The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1887-06-10
A BRIEF COMMENTARY.

As it is "the chief aim of the
Government organ "to disseminate
correct information about the ISL
ands," it has occurred to us that we
might afford a little assistance in
supplying our contemporary with
brief commentary on paragraph in
its yesterdays issue. 1t can repro
duce this commentary for sending
abroad by the next mail. We charge
nothing for our humble services,
and the small cost of putting into
type can well be borne by paper
which receives very considerable
fee for the publication of certain
class of news matter which we have
always been in the habit of publish
ing at our own expense. Then the
postage for sending to foreign coun-
tries will be next to mil, as its
foreign circulation is mostly paid
Tor by the Foreign Office.
- Our text is on the second page, in
the first column, and at the fifth
paragraph. 1t readeth thus 1--WE
have unfortunately had number of
professedly friendly visitors who,
after staying here for awhile and
gaining certain amount of conf
dence and patronage, have gone
away and, with two or three honor
able exceptions, have invariably ex-
aggerated and misrepresented every
thing that has come under their
observation in the country"
These, dearly beloved readers, are
the words of an oracle which is
never expected to speak the truth,
only when it (the oracle) is hope
lessly out Of order, and then only
by an accidental coincidence. More
over, they are believed to have been
inspired by the great prophet Waka,
the son of Glib, whose other name is
Murray. Now, this man is known
throughout the land to be wiser than
a serpent and not half so harmless
as a young dove. The words of our
text contain great truth, but they
must be interpreted, before the
common people" can clearly under
stand them.
The "visitors' who have remained
here for while and gained "a
certain amount of confidence and
patronage" are those who secure
access to, and are favored by the
Natronage of, the titled aristocracy.
any of these have gone away and
oold astonishing tales, some exagger.
ating to the disparagement of the
country and others on the favorable
side. This is just what any intelli-
: .SSnt observer would naturally expect
from the character of the visitors
thus privileged.
1t must be borne in mind that
respectable, high-minded, honorable
strangers who visit the islands are
not the people who find favor in
the circle of aristocracy. Persons
of this class are constantly coming
and going, and are cordially and
Hospitality received by our own
people of the same class, both in
Honolulu and on the other islands.
Some of them occasionally record in
public prints their experiences and
impressions of Hawai-, on returning
to their homes. The errors they
commit are unusually those of imper-
feet knowledge, and on the side of
leniency. Their eulogies are gener-
ally stronger in favor of the country
and people than would be written
by any impartial writer who had
resided on the islands two or three
years. Mr.. Peck, of the NeW York
Observer, and Professor Zahm, OF the
Rocky Nountam Ne,os, may be re-
ferred to as recent examples. The
published letters of these gentlemen
are more or less known to our
readers. To be sure, there are in.
accuracies in their writings, but what